Before Midnight (1933 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Before Midnight

| image = File:Before Midnight (1933 film).jpg

| caption =

| director = Lambert Hillyer

| producer =

| writer = Robert Quigley

| starring = Ralph Bellamy
June Collyer
Claude Gillingwater

| music =

| cinematography = John Stumar

| editing = Otto Meyer

| studio = Columbia Pictures

| distributor = Columbia Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1933|11|18}}

| runtime = 63 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

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Before Midnight is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery crime film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer and Claude Gillingwater. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it was the first in a series of four films featuring Inspector Steve Trent of the NYPD.Backer, p. 195 Bellamy featured in all three sequels One Is Guilty, The Crime of Helen Stanley and Girl in Danger.{{cite book |last1=Blottner |first1=Gene |title=Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years |date=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786486724 |chapter=Inspector Trent }}

Plot

NYC Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the estate of wealthy Edward Arnold around sixty miles outside NYC on a stormy night. Arnold has had a premonition that he is going to be murdered that night.